Snezhana Stadnik Tapia is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is an active member of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation Practice Group and practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Snezhana regularly consults with clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging technology matters, including regulatory investigations and compliance counseling. This experience includes advising clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues, including relating to legal and regulatory compliance with federal, state, and international laws and regulations. Additionally, Snezhana advises companies on data breach response management and counsels clients in a wide range of transactional matters regarding privacy, cybersecurity and data protection compliance. Snezhana maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes counseling clients on matters pertaining to privacy and cybersecurity, as well as immigration law.

Snezhana earned her Juris Doctor in 2018 from New York University School of Law, where she served as online editor for the Journal of International Law and Politics. During law school, she explored transnational regulatory issues with respect to global digital technologies as a research assistant and worked on data governance and privacy issues at an urban innovation tech company. Snezhana graduated with honors from the University of Washington in 2011 with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.B.A. in Business Administration.

Before law school, Snezhana taught middle school math as a Teach For America corps member in California and at an international school in Germany.

Snezhana is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Publications

• “U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review – 2023,” NYU Compliance & Enforcement (March 7, 2023) (co-author)
• “United States” chapter in The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review, Eighth, Seventh, and Sixth Editions (2021, 2020, and 2019) (co-author)
• “The Global ‘Last Mile’ Solution: High-Altitude Broadband Infrastructure,” Georgetown Law Technology Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2019)
• “Due Diligence Obligations of International Organizations under International Law,” NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 50.2 (2018) (co-author)
• “Preventing Violations: The Promise of Due Diligence for the International Finance Corporation,” NYU Institute for International Law and Justice (2017) (co-author)